Wade, Heat Force Game 7 With 97-90 Win Over Hornets
The Heat beat the Charlotte Hornets 97-90 to force a decisive game in the first-round series.
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The Heat beat the Charlotte Hornets 97-90 to force a decisive game in the first-round series.
Charlotte beat the Heat 90-88 in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference first-round series Wednesday night.
Kemba Walker scored a playoff career-high 34 points, Jeremy Lin added 21 and the Charlotte Hornets beat the Miami Heat 89-85 on Monday night to even their first-round series at 2-2.
Things rarely go as expected when it comes to the playoffs.
Dwyane Wade scored 28 points, Hassan Whiteside was 8 for 8 from the field and finished with 17 points, and the Heat beat the Charlotte Hornets 115-103 on Wednesday night to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference first-round series.
LeBron James has made the NBA Finals five years straight. Will it be six? More competition in the East could make it hard.
The Warriors dominated the NBA regular season, with the Spurs close behind. Can Curry and company take the West again?
The schedule is out for the Miami Heat's best of seven First Round play off series against the Charlotte Hornets.
Not much changed at the trade deadline, and all roads to the title still run through the Bay Area.
A division title might soon mean a banner but no assurance of a playoff spot in the NBA.
Who says basketball players don't want to work during the offseason?
Now that the NBA season is finally over, the time has come to look back and reflect.
The 2014-15 season did not go the way that the Miami Heat had planned.
The Eastern Conference seems far less interesting than the West, but still some intriguing match-ups in play.
Upsets are one of the best things about sports, especially when they happen in the playoffs.
The NBA regular season has come to an end and now we've got the marathon of playoff basketball to take us to Mid-June. The Western Conference was stacked as usual during the regular season and provides multiple options for teams that could end up representing in the Finals.
Miami ended the season with two wins in one game.
The Miami Heat head into game 82 of their 2014-15 schedule on Wednesday night, but the game holds a different kind of meaning than what the team has gotten used over the past decade or so.
Even teams that aren't going to make the playoffs are getting a taste of it during the final days of the season.
